ouch.. that sucks

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I've been a Be Pro customer for two years now, but I only reach speeds of 12 mbps down (out of the 24) and 1.4 mbps up (out of 2.5). I do a lot of BitTorrenting. I'm thinking of going with BT's fibre broadband 'Infinity'. Is it worth it? Do they throttle BitTorrent? Do they harass customers that P2P?

AVOID anything from BT if you want to use P2P or basically do anything other than normal web browsing, they throttle P2P and have hard caps on all their services.

Definitely stay away from BT for your sort of usage.

However I'm not sure your choice of Be Pro rather than the cheaper Be Unlimited is worth the extra £4pm. If the figures you give are from speed tests I would expect a loss of less than 300kbps upload and a download gain of over 2Mbps by downgrading. If they are connection speeds then hardly any upload loss.

Please can you post your router stats, which will give a better indication?

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I've been a Be Pro customer for two years now, but I only reach speeds of 12 mbps down (out of the 24) and 1.4 mbps up (out of 2.5). I do a lot of BitTorrenting. I'm thinking of going with BT's fibre broadband 'Infinity'. Is it worth it? Do they throttle BitTorrent? Do they harass customers that P2P?

It'll likely be a lot faster in terms of raw speed.

BitTorrent gets targeted but there are ways round it. Or you can use an alternative like Newsgroups which are full speed all the time.

Harassment? Not any more than other ISPs. Depends what you're doing...if it's terabytes of illegal uploads then you of course run the risk of some attention.

Do you get that full 25.5Mb from your FTTC BT connection when doing torrents then?

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Do you get that full 25.5Mb from your FTTC BT connection when doing torrents then?

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Depends on the quality of seeds....which is why...

...I use newsgroups for downloads generally and they always fly at the full 3MB/sec or thereabouts which is rather spiffing for 25 quid

Edited by orly (Wed 13-Oct-10 02:44:15)

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Do you get that full 25.5Mb from your FTTC BT connection when doing torrents then?

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Depends on the quality of seeds....which is why...

...I use newsgroups for downloads generally and they always fly at the full 3MB/sec or thereabouts which is rather spiffing for 25 quid

do you get sustained 7.6mbit speeds on upload whilst using torrents?

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In reply to a post by Anonymous:

Do you get that full 25.5Mb from your FTTC BT connection when doing torrents then?

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Depends on the quality of seeds....which is why...

...I use newsgroups for downloads generally and they always fly at the full 3MB/sec or thereabouts which is rather spiffing for 25 quid

do you get sustained 7.6mbit speeds on upload whilst using torrents?

You'd have to be an idiot to use full upload on torrents.

Ok, what about download then, do you get anywhere near a sustained 25.5Mb speed on downloading whilst using torrents?

I am currently with Be*, as you have now had BT infinity for a while what are your impressions. What protocols are throttled? (Obviously bit torrent will be).

My usage is mostly streaming radio, browsing, online backup (so the increased upload is good), Newsgroups, I don't do much P2P at all. (only if I can't find something on the newsgroups). The only thing that bothers me is the length of the contract, but balanced by the fact that they are the cheapest by far.